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What Do You Know About Shingles?

What have you heard lately about shingles? No, not the one’s on your roof!

There is a lot of news lately out there about shingles and the available vaccine.

Why do people get shingles?

When we get chicken pox, usually as children, we have symptoms of rash, blisters,

Why Has The Shingles Vaccine Not Caught On?

To close out our series on shingles, we address the question “Why has the availability of the vaccine not caught on?”

The shingles vaccine, Zostavax, was approved by the FDA in the spring of 2006.
The clinical trials of the vaccine halved the risk of getting shingles and decreased by two thirds the risk of developing postherpetic neuralgia,

What Is The Big Deal About Shingles?

In our ongoing look at shingles, let’s get a deeper understanding of the disease.

Shingles is caused by the same virus that causes chicken pox in children.
According to the CDC, if you’ve had chicken pox, there is a 1 in 3 chance you will develop shingles sometime in your life.

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What have you heard lately about shingles? No, not the one’s on your roof!

Why do people get shingles?

To close out our series on shingles, we address the question “Why has the availability of the vaccine not caught on?”

The shingles vaccine, Zostavax, was approved by the FDA in the spring of 2006. The clinical trials of the vaccine halved the risk of getting shingles and decreased by two thirds the risk of developing postherpetic neuralgia,

In our ongoing look at shingles, let’s get a deeper understanding of the disease.

The shingles vaccine, Zostavax, was approved by the FDA in the spring of 2006.
The clinical trials of the vaccine halved the risk of getting shingles and decreased by two thirds the risk of developing postherpetic neuralgia,